About two dozen employers made themselves available to job-seeking students in the semester's penultimate Recruitment Day, arranged by Career Services and held Tuesday in the Carl Building Technologies Center. Occupying perpendicular hallways of the BTC, recruiters shared their industry needs with tomorrow makers enrolled in electrical technology, electronics & computer engineering technology; engineering & industrial design technology, and information technology.
Pennsylvania College of Technology is the recipient of a $140,792 federal grant to offer free cybersecurity education to secondary school teachers. Awarded through the GenCyber program, the grant will facilitate a weeklong camp next June 24-28 on main campus for 25 Pennsylvania teachers of grades five through 12. The program’s goal is to build a strong cybersecurity workforce by sparking interest in the field at the secondary level.
A foundation dedicated to supporting packaging and processing education has awarded a $5,000 scholarship to a Pennsylvania College of Technology mechatronics student. Marissa R. Rupert, of Danville, is one of six students in North America to receive the PACK EXPO scholarship from the PMMI Foundation of the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.
As part of a PAsmart “Advancing K-12 Computer Science & STEM Education” grant received by Pennsylvania College of Technology from the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 24 middle school educators recently convened on campus for a weeklong hands-on externship.
Members of Penn College's Wildcat Games Studio club traveled to Raleigh, North Carolina, in April to attend the annual East Coast Game Conference hosted by the Triangle Game Initiative.
A newly installed plaque honors George P. Wolfe Sr., a retired associate professor of computer information technology who died Dec. 19, 2022, at the age of 92.
Twelve Pennsylvania College of Technology students and a faculty member were welcomed into the Williamsport Chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, an international honor society for the computing and information disciplines, during an April 20 ceremony on campus.
Anthony S. Riegel, a 2019 graduate in information technology: network specialist concentration, made a visit to campus to talk with students in Stephen R. Cheskiewicz’s Network Design & Management course.
An idea hatched a few years ago between hungry friends at Pennsylvania College of Technology has become a reality for restaurant-searching smartphone users. Darren J. Leh and Andrew E. Young, 2021 information technology graduates, recently published Out2Eat on the Apple and Google app stores. The free app facilitates group decision-making on a vital question: Where to eat?
In a room warmly enhanced by Wildcat blue uplighting, admissions counselor Michele R. Alexander addresses a full house from the Klump Academic Center Auditorium stage. Presidential Student Ambassador Eryn L. Nichols is among the friendly faces welcoming potential students and their families to campus.
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